British Foreign Secretary *gets it*

[impik]

Some brilliant observations by David Miliband:

"A year on from President Obama's election, people are already questioning why he has not already solved the world's problems. But the whole point of Obama's campaign was that the power and responsibility to change the world is distributed," Miliband said.
"It is only through working together — citizens, business and government; emerging and existing powers — that we can overcome problems too big for any single leader or any single nation. We all have to play a role. That is the real change we need," he said.
The 44-year-old Miliband, often touted as a successor to Prime Minister Gordon Brown as leader of Britain's governing Labour Party, said Obama had given the United States a "new start domestically and internationally."
"The cynics are in full cry. The waters may not have been parted. But a new start has been made and new agendas set. I remain an optimist about this defiantly transformational administration," Miliband said.

A-MEN.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_eu/eu_britain_defending_obama_6

[CakeGrrl]

1. He hit the nail on the head. Have people forgotten

how long a presidential term is, and they're up here warning him that he'd better wake up and "turn it around" when he's not even 1/4 of the way through it?

I think that's a short-sighted attitude. I get the impatience, but people are way too reactionary.

I'm personally feeling the bite of this stalled/faltering economy, but the writing was on the wall before the President was elected. I get that. And I get what kind of effects his presidency has had in subtly shaking up the power structure and the opposition party.

I don't expect Harrison Ford-type heroics and hocus pocus. It would help if more had some perspective.

[tabatha]

2. Yep, they are doing it here.

[dipsydoodle]

3. touted as a successor.........

Fat lot of good that will do the nasty little creep.

[Hutzpa]

5. Did he step on your granny or something?

:shrug:

[Hutzpa]

4. A-MEN indeed

The Brits gets it...they have always been behind good governance.

[Phx_Dem]

6. It takes a Brit with insight to see through the bullshit.

Amen is right.